My nervous system is enfeebled, only work in oils can sustain me.

Taste is the best judge. It is rare. Art only addresses itself to an excessively small number of individuals.

An art which isn't based on feeling isn't an art at all... feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique - all these are in the middle.

The clear French landscape is as pure as a verse of Racine.

If I think, everything is lost.

All my life I have worked to be able to earn my living, but I thought that one could do good painting without attracting attention to one's private life. Certainly, an artist wishes to raise himself intellectually as much as possible, but the man must remain obscure. The pleasure must be found in the work.

A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.